New Planetary Data and WWW Pages Available

Volume 12, Number 1, March 1996
by David Williams

Many new planetary data have been received at NSSDC and made available over the
last six months. These include the final two CD-ROM volumes of the
International Halley Watch Series, Volumes 25 and 26
, containing spacecraft data and images for comets P/Halley and
P/Giacobini-Zinner. More Magellan F-MAP
CD-ROMs have come in, bringing the total as of February 16, 1996, to 85
volumes or exactly half the total collection to be produced. When complete,
this set will contain full resolution radar images of Venus covering over 90% of
the planet's surface. A Magellan gravimetry
CD-ROM
is also available, containing the line-of-sight acceleration profile data
records (LOSAPDR). Galileo CD-ROM
Volume 16 has arrived. This volume contains all images from Galileo's
encounter with asteroid Ida and images of Jupiter during the SL-9 comet impact.
The first
two volumes of the new Voyager CD-ROMs
containing images of Saturn have come in. In addition, a new version of
the Planetary Data System (PDS) Welcome to the
Planets is now available. This Version 1.5 contains a Teacher's
Curriculum Guide to aid in using the information and images on the CD-ROM.